Title: Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services reports, manuals, and other material

Collection number: 0425

Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections

Language of Material:
English

Physical Description:
1.0 linear ft.
2 boxes

Date: 1941-1999, undated

Abstract: This collection consists of reports, plans, manuals, informational bulletins, and miscellaneous unpublished papers issued
by the Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. The latter agency was
created in 1972, and the Department of Health was incorporated into Health Services.

creator:
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of Health Services.

creator:
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Health Dept..

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives
to publish them. Copyright has not been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed
to obtain permission to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of reports, plans, manuals, informational bulletins, and miscellaneous unpublished papers issued
by the Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. The latter agency was
created in 1972, and the Department of Health was incorporated into Health Services. This collection also contains a photograph
of John Pomeroy, the first director of the Department of Health.

There is a particular emphasis on alcoholism in this collection, with statistical reports, strategic plans, and papers on
the problem, as well as two major reports on drug abuse. The collection also contains an interesting run of unpublished papers
that the Los Angeles County Health Department, Bureau of Medical Social Service, produced in the 1940s and early 1950s. The
topics range from the Bureau's relationship with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the area of public health nursing,
to the Bureau's report on the meeting in 1941 of the advisory committee of the U.S. Children's Bureau of Maternal and Child
Health, and Crippled Children.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services reports,
manuals, and other material, Collection no. 0425, California Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California

Arrangement

The collection is stored in two boxes, with the contents of each box listed alphabetically.